High School: Way to Forever
Chapter 407: It was Alex!

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"That feeling was always there. The feeling of guilt inside me. Slowly and slowly, as we turned out to be old, I realized that this is not meant for me. But I was pressed under Chris's goodness."

He was so foolish to believe Chris every time. To think that he has a good heart, even when he gave him so many signals already. But no one was ready to know the reality of truth.

Even when he knew that water he was doing, was the wrong thing but somewhere his heart was still longing for some love and care. But he was stupid to expect love and care from those who are just using you.

Just like Anna, he also suffered. Although her struggle was much more intense because her struggle was not only with herself but also with other people.

Alena just saw how his expression changed within a few seconds. He was happy just a second ago but, he was heavily pained.

His heart was aching and she can feel that she can see right through him. It must be paining to see your own loved ones going through something painful. But this is not that only, his loved ones are now totally not with him.

His father? Well, he was a big cheater as if he was told!

Not only that, guilt always eats you up when you just want to take it off your chest. 'I wish I was there with you when you had to go through so much.' This thought suddenly struck her.

"Jack..why did you even take orders from someone else? I agree that we had to pay him back because he saved your life..but while submitting your whole life to him?"

She wanted to revolt a lot but now, Chris is dead already. That demon died in Ana's hands. Earlier, she used to feel bad that he died but now, after hearing Jack's story, she does feel her heart lightened!

Jack smiled. He understood what she meant by her words where he explained the dark reality to her through bus words.

"Alena… that was the past. You remembered, the day we helped Anna to take Chris out of her engagement, you asked me, 'why do we need to help her out when I was Chris's secretary?"

"The reason was, he was behind all the misery that I have suffered in this lifetime. It was his father whose car hit my mother's body that day and she was killed. Not only that, David earlier ordered Chris to push me into the lake."

Shock and surprise were written all over her face. Knowing that someone, with whom you lived for so long as the murder of your, own closed ones is life-taking.

"That must have killed you from inside. Right?" Alena asked to which she received a nod. He wasn't only having the guilt but he felt that he lost his whole life the moment he learned the truth that he was residing under the killer's house.

"I was always told that it was a truck that hit my mother and she died on the spot but the reality was different. It wasn't any truck but David's car which hit my mother and she never died on the spot."

"It was that bastard's father who left her to die. He was with his secretary having his...those type of sessions and that resulted in the accident. He could have taken my mother to the hospital but no, he left her there so that she can die."

He held his face into his hands and cried remembering how he had witnessed his mother's dead body that day. Her face was covered in blood and her stomach was bleeding.

He tried to keep his hand on her wound which was bleeding but he found her cold body near his body. That pale face which made him feel horror!

Everyone tried to console him, his neighbors, his landlords, and everyone but his eyes was glued to his mother's pale face. He just wanted to memorize her last face so that he can always have her in his memory.

And today, that face and every memory were once again coming into his brain and mind. Alena held him close to her heart and in her embrace and let him cry his heart out.

Slowly and slowly, his breath got steady and he stopped crying but Alena can feel that he has more to say and more to tell her.

"So, is this the reason you accepted killing Chris that day?" she asked. But on the second note, she already guessed it.

"Yes. He deserved to die anyway and I let him die by Anna's hands because more than me, it was Anna who suffered because of that bastard. I was in pain, in guilt and if helping her to get rid of that man was in my hand then I will always help her."

Alena saw the hatred in his eyes when he talked about Chris now. He was someone, who thought that Chris was his life savior but in return, he got to know that Chris was never the one.

But then something came to her mind, "If it was not Chris who saved you then who was the person who saved you that day from dying?"

If Chris tried to kill him then who could have saved him then? Who was that person who was good enough to save the person who was drowning in the water?

She was not only curious to know about it but for some reason, she can feel really thankful for him to save her love.

That person saved someone, who was supposed to be killed. What can be the happier thing than this?

Jack held her hand into his and played with her fingers. He kept quiet for a few minutes and she stayed silent as well. Did he need time to tell her? She was absolutely fine with it.

"Jack...are you fine, my love?" she asked in a soft tone in which he nodded his head but no words left his mouth to reply back to her.

"So, do you know who saved you that day? Or you have no idea?" again, he nodded his head and she knew that the trap of life that was built around him, was finally broken and he knew the truth behind his life.

He wasn't replying and this was making her even more worried. His no reaction was like a total tension and worry for her.

"Are you willing to tell me? Maybe we can replace him and thank him in return for what that person did? he actually saved you from such a big accident!" Alena suggested but his time, Jack shook his head.

"You know him already. I know him already and we have close connections with him." hearing this, Alena frowned when he once again replied to extinguish her fire.

"It was Alex, who saved me that day instead of Chris."

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